FOOTNOTES:

The text followed is that of C.D. Fisher (Oxford
Classical Texts). Departures from it are
mentioned in the notes.

BOOK I

PREFACE

[A.D. 69.] I propose to begin my narrative with the
second 1 consulship of Servius Galba,
in which Titus Vinius was his colleague. Many
historians have dealt with the 820 years of the earlier
period beginning with the foundation of Rome, and
the story of the Roman Republic has been told with
no less ability than truth. After the Battle
of Actium, when the interests of peace were served
by the centralization of all authority in the hands